Event Viewer

[ashokvishnu]

Hi Gurus, Does anyone know how windows eventviewer is implementing the export functionality. That is we can export the event list as tab delimited txt format or comma delimited csv file format. I didnt find any suitable functions for this in windows event logging api. The issue is we have to develop a custome eventviewer and these funtionalities has to be included. Any suggestions are most welcome. Thanks C++beginer

[Anilkumar K V]

No function is there. I think EV is list control and MS provided functions to get value from list and record to file Anil

[ashokvishnu]

So what your are saying is that the records in the event log is loaded to a list control (pardon me, i am not familiar with vc jargon) and from the list control its saved to a specific format. That is log entries are not directly exported? C++beginer

[Blake Miller]

There is an already existing API to read the even log records. You can use that API to read the event log records and export them into whatever data format is of your choosing. See OpenEventLog and ReadEventLog for starters. I've seen better runs in my shorts! - Patches O'Houlihan